Leslie Caron

Ring in the new year with classic comedies

2012-12-27 06:00:00

The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre has the perfect antidote for holiday blues -- a series of classic comedies from the golden age of Hollywood. "Screwball Comedy Classics for the 2013 New Year" serves up 1947's "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"...

Roland Petit dies at 87; acclaimed choreographer

2011-07-12 00:00:00

Acclaimed choreographer Roland Petit, whose creations dazzled stages from Paris to Hollywood and inspired dancers, writers and designers, has died. He was 87. The Paris National Opera said Petit's wife, Zizi Jeanmaire, informed them that the...

PASSINGS: Leo Kirch, Roland Petit, Cal Montney, Lee Vines, Googie Withers, Frank Billerbeck

2011-07-18 13:15:00

Leo Kirch German media mogul Leo Kirch, 84, who turned his one-man film distribution company into Germany's second-biggest media business before losing control of it after a gamble on pay television, died Thursday in Munich. His family did not give...

'Law & Order: SVU's' guest actresses get Emmy's attention

2011-06-16 00:00:00

"We were writing a story for Chris Meloni's character's mother, and she was going to be bipolar. Immediately we thought Ellen Burstyn." So began Neal Baer's wooing of the Oscar-winning Burstyn to the set of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." "We had...

Jean Renoir retrospective at LACMA

2010-03-10 00:00:00

Extraordinary French film director Jean Renoir found the inspiration for one of his seminal early talkies, 1932's "Boudu Saved From Drowning," from an unlikely source -- the family pooch. "Boudu," which Paul Mazursky remade in 1986 as "Down and Out in...

Restored 'An American in Paris' to open TCM Classic Film Festival

2010-10-21 16:34:30

A celebration of dance in film at TCM Classic Film Festival

2011-05-02 16:33:23

Ellen Burstyn takes acting triple crown with Emmy win

2009-09-17 08:53:02

Monday's TV Highlights: James Earl Jones on 'House'

2009-10-05 16:34:15

Admit it. Carey Mulligan reminds you of Audrey Hepburn.

2009-10-09 04:33:03

Theater review: 'Daddy Long Legs' at Rubicon Theatre Company

2009-10-19 16:32:35

Monday's TV Highlights: Sheldon takes care of Penny on 'The Big Bang Theory'

2009-11-15 04:34:32

Actress Leslie Caron is 80.

2011-07-01 00:32:46

Jerry Mulligan's New Years' in Paris involves an ambitious and aesthetically stunning dream-scape and Gene Kelly in probably his most absurd costume ever (not pictured). New Years' tidings? Very good.

2010-12-22 14:39:27

Four years after winning the supporting actress Emmy as an always-in-control lawyer on "Sex and the City," Nixon won for her portrayal of a woman struggling to cope with multiple personality disorder on this police procedural drama.

2009-03-16 16:52:45